Software agents from the past

Nowadays, we are all familiar with Siri, Google Now and TellMe but are these intelligent personal assistants something new? Probably you remember Clippy or Rover that Microsoft introduced in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Or probably you remember the intelligent personal assistants for Mac OS or OS/2.

Today, I would like to remind you about the agents built by SRI International back in 1990s. Check these short videos out.

You can find the original videos at http://www.ai.sri.com/~oaa/distrib.html#videos.